My Acreage Project - Let the fun begin

[ThePenIsMightier]

Oh, that's not what I was imagining, at all. I thought the modularized walls were finished with windows, siding and possibly even drywall. I think that company called Landmark does this, somehow.
Still awesome, just that something from earlier made me think it was different.

[Gman.45]

Great thread so far, what a fantastic project to share with Beyonders.

[s dime]

What goes in between the floors, and the earth beneath? Is this area insulated or just sealed off somehow?

Neat project.

[eblend]

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What goes in between the floors, and the earth beneath? Is this area insulated or just sealed off somehow?

Neat project.

There goes an L shaped frost shield insulation, and then treated plywood to cover up the gap. Think some BlueSkin goes around that after the fact...but not too sure. They delivered BlueSkin stuff, so I am pretty sure it's going to go around the foundation insulation to seal the gap.

[s dime]

Thanks, I see it now, the whole place has a concrete floor. Ill follow this thread closely, would love to do something like this in the future.

[eblend]

Went out there early this morning to take a look at what was done yesterday, and looks like they are installing 3X LVL beams sandwiched together, plus a few pieces of insulation, to make up the 8" wall thickness. These go around the entire perimeter and support the whole roof structure above, and transfer the load to the screw piles. Kind of neat, didn't know about this detail of the build.

They also reframed the two small vertical windows to their proper height. Someone at the factory screwed up.


LVL all around:











Reframed windows:

[ThePenIsMightier]

Daaayum! Them walls be thic!

[schurchill39]

Are you going to spray foam insulate or fiberglass batten?

[2002civic]

following, awesome project!

[ThePenIsMightier]

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That header will be under a lot of stress and it looks like it's only resting on that one (assumed 2x8).

*Not Structural advise

[eblend]

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Are you going to spray foam insulate or fiberglass batten?

Spray foam the whole ma-faka, this is conditioned attic, cost of sprayfoam > $100k!! Whole place will be a spray cave, even under concrete.

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That header will be under a lot of stress and it looks like it's only resting on that one (assumed 2x8).

*Not Structural advise

Good question. I noticed this as well when I was out there a few days ago. I will take a look again tomorrow when I head out. I know they haven't fully finished framing that area out, as right now it's just an LVL on the double door, but the single door is framed out fully. I will check to see. You are right about lots of weight, the whole loft + roof will be sitting on that 16' span. I just just notice that there is 2" of plywood sticking out, leads me to believe that a 2x8 is going into that area still on each side.

[eblend]

So was out there today just to clean up around the site a little bit, and took some more pictures. They have braced the whole building to square it out, and started putting up the roof and loft. The roof will be pointy, there is a triangle that still goes on top, I think they build it this way for easier transport.

[eblend]

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That header will be under a lot of stress and it looks like it's only resting on that one (assumed 2x8).

*Not Structural advise

Went out today to do some cleanup and took some pictures to further clarify this:

As you can see, the framing around this isn't finished as both doors will be same height:



This is the detail on the back of the small door. I suspect it will be exactly same on the big door. Why it's not framed in yet I am not sure, perhaps has something to do with the stairs they still need to bring in for the loft, perhaps they need the clearance.




Also got around to fly the drone again just for fun. Some random shots.

[Doozer]

Drone shots are cool shots.

[eblend]

No major updates. Have been out of town for a few days and checked today and the roof is nearly completed.



The stairs for the loft are in the open area, so there is more complex framing involved

[eblend]

Well things are moving along. They are sheathing the roof right now, but overall looks pretty much the same, so I didn't bother with any pictures. Yesterday I started and today finished up my little generator shed. The bitch is heavy to move, so I didn't want to move it anymore and just build a little house around it. I need it to run the well pump for the time being so I can get water to seed/water the grass on the septic field....unfortunately, it appears that the pump is a dud. Called the septic guy and he was sure it wasn't the pump and some generator problem, but luckily there is another construction not too far away and I drove buy and was able to have them quickly drop by with their generator to test, and same thing, no water. The generator changes tone like there is a load, but no water ever comes out. With two generators not able to get the pump moving, I think something is wrong with the pump. The guy who installed the pump will come out sometime and have a look. I know it's a brand new $1500 pump in there as I was there when it was installed, but it was never tested at that time, so could have been dead from the start, which is very unfortunate.

Anyways, here is my little shed for the pump. Used all refuse material they had on site, cost me absolutely nothing. Had a pack of shingles laying around so decided to shingle the top as well.







I originally made a platform to move it around easily with a tractor, so I just build around this platform so I can still move it to a new place later on.

[Ekliptix]

I def thought that was a dog house at first glance.

[eblend]

Well my well guy has gone MIA....after agreeing to meet me Tuesday and being responsive over the weekend, I haven't been able to reach him for all of this week...fml

Anyways, progress is going, mostly just sheathing at the moment. Some updated pics:

Loft (8' ceilings, hard to get idea of the space from the picture. Stairs will be around where the ladder is sticking out.)



Few angles of the house. The two large roof section will join at the peak, they haven't built that part out yet





Hopefully some more exciting updates soon.

[ExtraSlow]

Like the place. Hope your guy shows up.

[Ekliptix]

Loft looks good, nice and deep. 70ft?